Does anyone use bing bird's eye for assesment?

[gemniii]

SAB
for instance see the pic in my album, if you can.  I can't figure out how to easily slam a picture into the post and the java uploader's not working on this Linux box.

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[img]http://www.forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/
20131/howellpl1.jpg[/img] is all it takes.

[SwampDonkey]

To make it easier for folks to get to your photo album, go to your profile page. Click on Forum Profile Information. Look for, My Photos:.
Your Forestry Forum user number added to 10000 will enable your photo gallery link. Get your number by clicking on your name on the forum, then looking at the address in the browser address bar. The number you see in it, is your user number. That's how you activate the link to your photo album under your user name in each post you make. In your case it's 20131 you put in there.

There is a tutorial under "Behind the Forum" board to posting photos. It's simply using the forum tags

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[img]http://www.forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11009/SD_Eggcups.jpg[/img] at the beginning and on the end of the photo url in your gallery. You can click on an image in your album and the code gets written in a window below, cut and paste into a post. You can access your gallery quickly under the menu bar item "Forum Extras/Photo Galleries", then down the left in a new screen is a menu with "My Gallery".

[gemniii]

Thanks for the pointer!

[SwampDonkey]

gemniii, is this a GIS on Linux?

I use ArcPad and Maptitude and fGIS (a freebie). I don't use them for assessments other than finding area and typing stand boundaries on a cruise plan.

[SwampDonkey]

I edited the code back in that post, because the forum adds the width code in there automatic.

[gemniii]

gemniii, is this a GIS on Linux?

I use ArcPad and Maptitude and fGIS (a freebie). I don't use them for assessments other than finding area and typing stand boundaries on a cruise plan.

No, bing, as in Microsoft bing maps, has flown a lot of the country and provides low level bird's eye views (aerial obliques), as well as the standard satellite imagery.
http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?q=&mkt=en-US&FORM=BYFD

I'm using Erdas and ArcInfo on windoze at work and QGIS/GRASS at home on linux.  I used to use fGIS.

and I tried installing Java, and now every time I try to insert a photo my browser hangs up .

[SwampDonkey]

Our department of natural resources flies the entire province every 5-10 years and provides digital orthographic photos distortion free in MrSID format for free off the web. Also, up to date property boundaries in shapefile format as well as roads, water, contour points, counties etc are free.

[madhatte]

I'm using Erdas and ArcInfo on windoze at work and QGIS/GRASS at home on linux.  I used to use fGIS.

How do you like QGIS?  I feel like it's Arc on training wheels.  There's so much potential there, but the OS community hasn't gotten the functionality down yet.  I think that they will, in time -- look at the GIMP vs Photoshop, for example -- but it's still pretty unrefined. 

[gemniii]

My work packages run around $20K.
Fgis and QGIS, along with GRASS do a lot of the basic functionality for creating vectors and minimal manipulation of rasters while keeping things topologically accurate.
I've been using GRASS off and on since it's precursors ADDWAMS and MOSS came out about 1978.
It's taken a very long time to get where it is now.

I can do everything I need for small stuff with QGIS, but at work we need the extra horsepower.

[chainspinrunner]

New York has a great site. NYS GIS clearinghouse. Infrared photos and such. check it out.

[SwampDonkey]

Does it have an Arc IMS server? Basically, allows you to load a layer into your GIS over the internet. You'll want high speed access.

[SPIKER]

one thing is that you cant tell how OLD the pics are using it.  the pics that I looked at with my house are about 3~5 years old depending on birds eye or overhead.   just as an FYI.

mark

[mdvaden]

My use would be a rare look from overhead, when providing consulation for urban zone trees. One shot, even though a few years old, showed me 4 dead tops in a row among a couple of acres. And the line was much too straight coincidence if the dots were connected. Made me offer to suggest that something man-caused had triggered damage, but so long ago that the cause may be history.